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hi mudra,

can you imagine what that must have felt like for the driver?

I saw a photo of a house right beside the sink-hole where if someone were to step outside there was only about a foot between the front door and the sink-hole.

blessings to you and yours

spiritwarrior

spiritwarrior wrote:hi mudra,

can you imagine what that must have felt like for the driver?

I saw a photo of a house right beside the sink-hole where if someone were to step outside there was only about a foot between the front door and the sink-hole.

blessings to you and yours

spiritwarrior

He yes ... I saw one of those in town a few years ago . It really impressed me.

Love from me

Temperatures hit record highs globally. El Nino or global warming?

The first half of 2010 was the hottest six-month
period recorded globally with temperatures around the globe 2 to 3
degrees Fahrenheit above averages.



By


Pete Spotts, Staff writer /
July 23, 2010


You might have missed it if you live in many spots in the lower 48
states, but the first six months of 2010 were the warmest on record
globally, according to preliminary data from the National Climatic Data
Center in Asheville, N.C.

During the January-to-June period, combined land and ocean surface
temperatures around the globe ran 1.22 degrees Fahrenheit above the
20th-century average.Temperatures also ran above normal along the
US East Coast. But in the the upper Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, the
Rocky Mountain states, and the Southeast, temperatures ran from 2 to 3
degrees F below the long-term average.IN PICTURES: Beating the summer heat"We
haven't seen the warming in the 48 states, which is kind of nice," says
David Pierce, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. "But the rest of the world has really
seen warm conditions."One of the drivers behind the warm first
half was El Nino – a condition in which a deep pool of warm water in the
tropical Pacific migrates from its hot spot in the western part of the
ocean to the waters off of wester South America. The thunderheads that
tower above that pool and help drive atmospheric circulation patterns
move east as well, altering the circulation patterns as they travel.That led to warmer-than-normal temperatures in the usual locations in the tropics – in Africa and southern Asia, for instance.But El Nino's reach also extended more indirectly to much of Alaska, Canada, and southern Greenland. Indeed, ............

more.....http://www.csmonitor.com

Violent storms rip through region

July 26, 2010 - 2:05pm

Violent storms rip through region



July 26, 2010 - 2:05pm










The storm uprooted huge trees. (WTOP Photo/J.J. Green)

WASHINGTON - Powerful, fast-moving storms swept
through the region Sunday, leaving hundreds of thousands of families
without electricity and leaving millions under mandatory water
restrictions.

"This is going to be an event that we will be combating for the next couple of days," Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley tells WTOP.
"We have no good estimate right now as to when all of this power will be back on."
O'Malley says four large power substations and 69 smaller ones were knocked offline.

"This is a multi-day effort," said Pepco spokesman Clay Anderson.
Anderson says the following areas may not have power until Tuesday:

• Northwest D.C.
  
• Shepherd Park
  
• Silver Spring
  
• Bethesda
  
• Rockville
  
• Potomac
  
• Landover
  

When a wire comes down, power crews must trace the path of the wire to
determine where it goes so that turning it back on does not cause
additional damage. Anderson says it takes time to track the path of
those feeder lines, 100 of which are out.

Pepco is discounting the notion that it was unprepared for the storm.

"We got hit hard. We've got an above-ground system in Montgomery County," says Pepco spokesman Bob Hainey.
Pepco brought in crews from Delmarva and from First Energy to assist.
"Trees were bent down to the ground. Trees were uprooted," Hainey says of the damage from the strong winds.
"We have a major tree canopy in this area, and it tore into the system."
"This was a very violent storm. What we've seen is significant damage," Baltimore Gas and Electric spokesman Rob Gould says.
"We expect that all customers should be restored by late tomorrow," Gould says.
If your power has been knocked out, call your utility company:

• Pepco: 1-877-737-2662
  
• Dominion Virginia Power: 1-866-366-4357
  
• Allegheny Power: 1-800-255-3443
  
• No. Va. Electric Cooperative: 1-888-335-0500
  
• Baltimore Gas & Electric: 1-877-778-2222
  
• Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative: 1-877-747-6326
  

Here are the outage numbers, as of 2 p.m. Pepco outage numbers have not
been updated due to a problem on Pepco's outage map website. Pepco says
they are aware of the problem and working to fix it.
(Click on the links for real-time updates)

• Pepco: 238,858 in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties and D.C. (10 a.m. update)
  
• Dominion Power: 7,000 outages in Northern Virginia
  
• BGE: 26,174 outages
  
• Allegheny: 27 outages in Montgomery County; 7 in Frederick County
  
• NOVEC: 97 in Loudoun and Prince William counties
  
• SMECO: 10 in Charles County
  

Winds in excess of 60 mph whipped through the area, bringing down power lines and trees.
"Downed wires are a safety issue," Anderson says.
You are urged to call the power company if you see a downed line.

Anderson says Pepco has to assess the damage to transformers and substations.
The storm hit Pepco's Montgomery County customers the hardest. At the
height of the storm, 300,000 Pepco customers did not have electricity.
Gould says at the height of the storm BGE had 112,000 outages. Prince
George's and Anne Arundel counties took the brunt of the damage.

"A lot of areas had a lot of tree damage," Anderson says.
More than 70 trees and large limbs fell throughout the District. The
D.C. Department of Transportation asks you to report downed trees to
311.

DDOT also asks you, if possible, to clear sidewalks of any small fallen
tree branches and debris. The District's Urban Forestry Administration
will pick it up later in the week.

Shelters and Cooling Centers
Montgomery County and the American Red Cross have a shelter open at the
East County Recreation Center (3310 Gateshead Manor Way in Silver
Spring) and Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville for anyone that
needs assistance while the power is out.
In Montgomery County, the following cooling centers are open:

• Twinbrook Community Recreation Center, 12920 Twinbrook Parkway, 6 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
  
• Lincoln Park Community Center, 357 Frederick Ave., 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
  
• Thomas Farm Community Center, 700 Fallsgrove Drive, 6 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
  
• Elwood Smith Community Center, 601 Harrington Road, 9 a.m.-6
  p.m. (open for drop-in; parents are asked to register their children)
  
• Montrose Community Center, 451 Congressional Lane, 9 a.m.-6
  p.m. (open for drop in; parents are asked to register their children)
  

In Prince George's County, the following cooling centers are open:

• The New Carrollton Nutrition Center, 6016 Princess Garden Parkway in Lanham from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.
  
• Camp Springs Senior Center, 6420 Allentown Road in Camp
  Springs from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. For more information call 301-265-8450.
  

The following fire stations also will be used as cooling centers will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.:

• Station 810, Laurel Volunteer Fire Department No. 1, Inc. 7411 Cherry Lane, Laurel.
  
• Station 855, Bunker Hill Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association, Inc. 3716 Rhode Island Avenue, Brentwood.
  
• Station 818, The Glenn Dale Fire Association, Inc., 11900 Glenn Dale Blvd., Glenn Dale.
  
• Station 820, Marlboro Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., 14815 Pratt St., Upper Marlboro.
  
• Station 829, Silver Hill Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad, 3900 Old Silver Hill Rd., Silver Hill.
  
• Station 832, Allentown Road Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., 8709 Allentown Rd., Fort Washington.
  

All Prince George's County community and recreation centers will be open from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m.
In D.C., the following cooling centers are open:

• Deanwood Recreation Center - 1350 49th St NE
  202-671-3077
  
• Emery Recreation Center - 5801 Georgia Ave NW
  202-576-3211
  
• Chevy Chase Community Center - 5601 Connecticut Ave NW 202-282-2204
  
• Harry Thomas Sr Recreation Center - 1743 Lincoln Rd NE 202-576-5642
  

Water Restrictions
Mandatory water restrictions
are in effect for 1.8 million Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
customers in Montgomery and Prince George's counties. No outdoor water
use is allowed. Inside, WSSC says limit your use.

Traffic Lights Out
Hundreds of traffic lights across the region are out.
Around the region, O'Malley says 270 traffic lights are out. Most are in Montgomery County.
Drivers are to treat these areas as four-way stops.

Damage Done
In Prince George's County, hundreds of people have been displaced after
the storm damaged 16 apartment buildings in two complexes.
The storm damaged the roofs at Seven Springs Apartments on Cherry Hill
Road in College Park and at the Emperian Village Complex on Edmonston
Road in Greenbelt. Prince George's County Fire and EMS says people
living in 194 apartment units were affected.

A tornado warning was issued Sunday afternoon for Howard and Montgomery
counties in Maryland, ending at 3:45 p.m. While the National Weather
Service has not confirmed a tornado, many calls to the WTOP newsroom
from those counties reported extremely violent winds during the storm.

Several calls to the WTOP newsroom also reported many trees across area roads.
A Darnestown, Md. woman called WTOP to report "10 mature trees" were ripped out of the ground during the storm.
After the storm, trees blocked traffic on the George Washington Parkway,
the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Rock Creek Parkway and the
Connecticut Avenue exit on the Capital Beltway. Those roads are open.

Phone Service
Verizon says it has 26 central offices on backup generators. The
exception is the Berwyn central office in Prince George's County where a........http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2008840.










WASHINGTON - Powerful, fast-moving storms swept through the
region Sunday, leaving hundreds of thousands of families without
electricity and leaving millions under mandatory water restrictions.
"This is going to be an event that we will be combating for the next couple of days," Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley tells WTOP.
"We have no good estimate right now as to when all of this power will be back on."
O'Malley says four large power substations and 69 smaller ones were knocked offline.
"This is a multi-day effort," said Pepco spokesman Clay Anderson.
Anderson says the following areas may not have power until Tuesday:

• Northwest D.C.
  
• Shepherd Park
  
• Silver Spring
  
• Bethesda
  
• Rockville
  
• Potomac
  
• Landover
  

When a wire comes down, power crews must trace the path of the wire to
determine where it goes so that turning it back on does not cause
additional damage. Anderson says it takes time to track the path of
those feeder lines, 100 of which are out.
Pepco is discounting the notion that it was unprepared for the storm.
"We got hit hard. We've got an above-ground system in Montgomery County," says Pepco spokesman Bob Hainey.
Pepco brought in crews from Delmarva and from First Energy to assist.
"Trees were bent down to the ground. Trees were uprooted," Hainey says of the damage from the strong winds.
"We have a major tree canopy in this area, and it tore into the system."
"This was a very violent storm. What we've seen is significant damage," Baltimore Gas and Electric spokesman Rob Gould says.
"We expect that all customers should be restored by late tomorrow," Gould says.
If your power has been knocked out, call your utility company:

• Pepco: 1-877-737-2662
  
• Dominion Virginia Power: 1-866-366-4357
  
• Allegheny Power: 1-800-255-3443
  
• No. Va. Electric Cooperative: 1-888-335-0500
  
• Baltimore Gas & Electric: 1-877-778-2222
  
• Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative: 1-877-747-6326
  

Here are the outage numbers, as of 2 p.m. Pepco outage numbers have not
been updated due to a problem on Pepco's outage map website. Pepco says
they are aware of the problem and working to fix it.
(Click on the links for real-time updates)

• Pepco: 238,858 in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties and D.C. (10 a.m. update)
  
• Dominion Power: 7,000 outages in Northern Virginia
  
• BGE: 26,174 outages
  
• Allegheny: 27 outages in Montgomery County; 7 in Frederick County
  
• NOVEC: 97 in Loudoun and Prince William counties
  
• SMECO: 10 in Charles County
  

Winds in excess of 60 mph whipped through the area, bringing down power lines and trees.
"Downed wires are a safety issue," Anderson says.
You are urged to call the power company if you see a downed line.
Anderson says Pepco has to assess the damage to transformers and substations.
The storm hit Pepco's Montgomery County customers the hardest. At the
height of the storm, 300,000 Pepco customers did not have electricity.
Gould says at the height of the storm BGE had 112,000 outages. Prince
George's and Anne Arundel counties took the brunt of the damage.
"A lot of areas had a lot of tree damage," Anderson says.
More than 70 trees and large limbs fell throughout the District. The
D.C. Department of Transportation asks you to report downed trees to
311.
DDOT also asks you, if possible, to clear sidewalks of any small fallen
tree branches and debris. The District's Urban Forestry Administration
will pick it up later in the week.
Shelters and Cooling Centers
Montgomery County and the American Red Cross have a shelter open at the
East County Recreation Center (3310 Gateshead Manor Way in Silver
Spring) and Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville for anyone that
needs assistance while the power is out.
In Montgomery County, the following cooling centers are open:

• Twinbrook Community Recreation Center, 12920 Twinbrook Parkway, 6 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
  
• Lincoln Park Community Center, 357 Frederick Ave., 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
  
• Thomas Farm Community Center, 700 Fallsgrove Drive, 6 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
  
• Elwood Smith Community Center, 601 Harrington Road, 9 a.m.-6
  p.m. (open for drop-in; parents are asked to register their children)
  
• Montrose Community Center, 451 Congressional Lane, 9 a.m.-6
  p.m. (open for drop in; parents are asked to register their children)
  

In Prince George's County, the following cooling centers are open:

• The New Carrollton Nutrition Center, 6016 Princess Garden Parkway in Lanham from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.
  
• Camp Springs Senior Center, 6420 Allentown Road in Camp
  Springs from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. For more information call 301-265-8450.
  

The following fire stations also will be used as cooling centers will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.:
: ........................http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2008840

UDPATE 2-Smog blankets Moscow on city's hottest day


26 Jul 2010 15:55:05 GMT



Source: Reuters

Extreme heat in Russia. Since June. Caused a lot of fires...temperatures in people's houses reach 40 degrees C.
http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/184557,21,6,pokaz.html

Wow .. thanks for reporting burgundia .
This is so sad .2010 is hard on many.

Love from me
mudra

Floods in the Czech Republic after intense precipitations...a lot of rain and storms in some parts of Poland too...

Record Cold Grips South America

Snow in Brazil, below zero Celsius in the River Plate and tropical fish frozen

For a second day running it snowed Wednesday in Southern Brazil and in twelve of Argentina’s 24 provinces including parts of Buenos Aires as a consequence of the polar front covering most of the continent’s southern cone with zero and below zero temperatures.

“The last time something of this magnitude happened was 47 years ago”, said governor Costas.

Read more here : http://en.mercopress.com/2010/08/05/snow-in-brazil-below-zero-celsius-in-the-river-plate-and-tropical-fish-frozen

Love Always
mudra

due to extreme cold...
http://www.boliviabella.com/1-million-fish-dead-in-bolivian-ecological-disaster.html

burgundia wrote:http://www.ufo-blogger.com/2010/08/chinese-weather-weapon-lehladakh.html

Fish and turtles don't die from cold...they go into suspension. They live for months at a time under ice. Now, I don't know about the dolphins. This makes me think there is more to that story...

burgundia wrote:

My thoughts are with all of the people suffering the terrible heat and smoke and smog. This is a huge disaster for Russia. It's unimaginable...I'm sending them thoughts of cooling rain, but not too much at once! I wouldn't want to be stuck in a city with those conditions...it's making me claustrophobic just thinking about it. Autumn comes.

The seasons seem to be three weeks to a month ahead on the US East Coast. It's "September cold" in Maine at my Dad's summer lake house. They had to build a fire in the woodstove this morning, just like September mornings. My brother the farmer in Pennsylvania says the crops are all coming in three weeks early. And a local scientist (national orthinologist - bird - expert) says that the seasons are all off-timing. The birds are migrating at the normal time, but they are arriving in locations a month too late for their normal feeding cycle on larvae, worms, etc. The larvae are already hatched so there's no food...What is going on here? I know we had a physical pole shift of a few degrees after the Bandeh Ace quake, but would this be the sole cause? Anybody have any ideas? The leaves are turning color too soon...and it's so hot it's horrible...but we are used to heat in the South, we know how to protect. It's the northerners who don't know how to respond. It's slightly better this week, but roads are buckling in Mississippi. I mean, What The...

WASHINGTON — A giant ice island has broken off the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland.

A University of Delaware researcher says the floating ice sheet covers 100 square miles – more than four times the size of New York's Manhattan Island.

Andreas Muenchow, who is studying the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada, said the ice sheet broke off early Thursday. He says the new ice island was discovered by Trudy Wohlleben of the Canadian Ice Service.

Not since 1962 has such a large chunk of ice calved in the Arctic, but researchers have noticed cracks in recent months in the floating tongue of the glacier.

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Local floodings after intense rains in some parts of Poland...photos..
http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/cynk/1142,1,1,zdjecie.html

Smog in Moscow caused by forest fires...photos
http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/5,80292,8226045,Rosja_spowita_smogiem__ZDJECIA_.html?i=5

Hello All,
More landslides in China. 127 dead, 1,300 missing, 45,000 evacuated.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10905399

photos, flood

http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/cynk/1143,1,1,zdjecie.html

Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current Dying
Loop Current in Gulf of Mexico Already Dead

Extreme heat/drought in Russia, Flooding in Asia,
Killing Cold in South America
All Connected To BP Oil Disaster

Check post 386 on Oil spill thread :
http://www.themistsofavalon.net/news-views-f9/gulf-oil-platform-explosion-and-spill-t627-375.htm#13228

Love Always
mudra

Just announced on IntelHub: a police officer from Arkansas has reported on the New Madrid fault shaking a little. We can see this on the USGS. In addition, there are reports from this police officer, who will try to call back in, of a mountain in Arkansas that is imploding. Sinking into the earth, as we speak. I'm gonna go put my earthquake kit back outside, y'all. I'd rather be called a fool than Be a fool.

http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2010/08/07/12359.shtml

burgundia wrote:Smog in Moscow caused by forest fires...photos
[url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/5,80292,8226045,Rosja_spowita_smogiem__ZDJECIA_.html?i=5

http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/5,80292,8226045,Rosja_spowita_smogiem__ZDJECIA_.html?i=5[/quote[/url]]

@Burgundia
Did you see the report where there is radioactive particles in the air also. the link.(above)

Unofficially, they speak about plague in Russia, but first of all, about sharply elevated radioactive background in the city, caused by destruction of atomic bombs in fires at nuclear weapons arsenals outside Moscow. According to unofficial information, warehouses of chemical and bacteriological weapons were also burnt down.

The final decision on immediate evacuation of foreign diplomats from Russia was made after the ringleader of the Russian terrorist gang Disaster Ministry, Shoigu, said that "the level of radiation may increase in Bryansk region because of fires" (the soil there is still very strongly contaminated by Chernobyl).


Hope you are safe.
Micjer

thanks accuracy2 for that link. No, nothing in the Polish media about radioactive contamination. Nothing about evacuation of the Polish embassy. However I know that the fires have already reached eastern Ukraine too.

[quote="accuracy2"]http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2010/08/07/12359.shtml

burgundia wrote:Smog in Moscow caused by forest fires...photos
http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/5,80292,8226045,Rosja_spowita_smogiem__ZDJECIA_.html?i=5[/quote]

@Burgundia
Did you see the report where there is radioactive particles in the air also. the link.(above)

Unofficially, they speak about plague in Russia, but first of all, about sharply elevated radioactive background in the city, caused by destruction of atomic bombs in fires at nuclear weapons arsenals outside Moscow. According to unofficial information, warehouses of chemical and bacteriological weapons were also burnt down.

The final decision on immediate evacuation of foreign diplomats from Russia was made after the ringleader of the Russian terrorist gang Disaster Ministry, Shoigu, said that "the level of radiation may increase in Bryansk region because of fires" (the soil there is still very strongly contaminated by Chernobyl).


Hope you are safe.
Micjer

A little more on that here..Usual denial stuff
http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Defends_Nuclear_Sites_From_Wildfires/2123643.html